Cisco's Catalyst line of modular and fixed-configuration switches offers performance and intelligence at the access, distribution, and backbone levels of converged voice, HD video, and high bandwidth data networks for organizations that range in size from small businesses and branches to multi-campus enterprises and SPs. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE consultants can provide remote and on-premises expertise with Catalyst switches to help your organization to design an efficient infrastructure that addresses your unique business needs, set up pilot testing systems, install Catalyst switches, implement and verify a sensible security and compliance strategy, streamline network management and monitoring, provide troubleshooting and support services, maximize switch capacity, and set up Catalyst's fault-tolerant technology for near-zero downtime.

Progent can assist you to maintain and troubleshoot your legacy Catalyst switches or migrate with minimal disruption to current models of Catalyst switches following leading practices to ensure that you realize the highest return from your investment in your IT infrastructure.

The demand for intelligent, fast switching is driven by a confluence of fairly new networking patterns whose overall effect is a cyber tsunami of data:

  • Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) networking and an associated requirement for massive network virtualization
  • The pervasiveness of BYOD computing
  • Data guzzling HD video applications
  • Social media for business
  • The rise of Big Data in enterprise analytics
  • Increasingly sophisticated threats like ransomware
Cloud computing is only financially feasible by utilizing virtualization technology. Virtualized infrastructures slash expenses by permitting very high resource utilization and demanding very little data center space and power consumption. But this also requires that comparatively limited network resources have to support large volumes of traffic. The Bring-Your-Own-Device revolution has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of mobile clients that must be supported by business networks, and these users run a high percentage of bandwidth-intensive, rich media apps. Social media for business is displacing traditional email as the main enabler of collaboration and is generating an ever increasing demand for bandwidth. Enterprises who want to remain competitive are adopting Big Data technology to search through enormous and disparate repositories of information, which as a result produces Big Network Traffic. All of these trends are relatively new, and combined they create a serious need for an advanced class of switches that offer significantly more performance, control, availability and ease of management than previous platforms were engineered to provide.

Cisco's latest portfolio of Catalyst switches are best suited for the distribution and core layers layers of enterprise campus deployments where office workers must be provided for by offering predictable high speed, strict client access control, careful segregation, application intelligence, and wired and wireless convergence. Catalyst series switches are designed to meet the need for performance and control with capabilities that include high-port-count 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet support, switching performance over 25T for each appliance, an extensive collection of technologies such as EVN to facilitate the creation of virtual networks, Virtual Switching System technology for stateful interchassis failover with instant backup switch restoration and "five nines" (99.999%) availability, IPv4 and IPv6 support, Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to maximize network resource usage, and advanced QoS tools for critical data control.

Catalyst Switches Consulting and Troubleshooting

Cisco Has Developed Catalyst Switches for Organizations of Any Size

Catalyst switches enable businesses of all sizes to benefit from incorporating intelligent switching and routing services into their network infrastructure, creating an ecosystem that can deal with current requirements, expand to support future capacity demands, protect vital data, and separate and control tasks to optimize network productivity.

Catalyst 1000 Series Fixed Ethernet Switches
Catalyst 1000 Family Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 1000 Layer 2 network access switches are small form factor, fixed-configuration switches intended for smaller businesses and branch offices with as many as 250 workers and with little if any in-house IT support. The Catalyst 1000 line includes fanless versions for silent operation outside a wiring closet in an office venue. Mounting options include desktop, wall mount, standard rack mount, and DIN rail mount. Designed as an easy upgrade for Cisco Catalyst 2960-L or 2960-Plus Series deployments, the Catalyst 1000 Series includes versions with 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports or 24 to 48 Fast Ethernet 10/100M Mbps ports.

Catalyst Series 1000 configuration and management are easy using a web interface or CLI, cybersecurity is enterprise-grade, and Power over Ethernet capability with a dynamically distributed budget of 740W allows a wide range of Internet of Things solutions. Up to eight Catalyst 1000 Gbit Ethernet Series switches can be controlled together with single IP. Catalyst 1000 models are nonblocking line-rate devices, and all are based on Cisco's venerable IOS Software. Quality-of-Service (QoS) features include egress queues for each port as well as priority packet queuing to deliver wire-speed throughput for data, IP voice, and video traffic. Catalyst 1000 switches also support SRR scheduling and Weighted Tail Drop (WTD) congestion avoidance.

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Managed Switches
The Cisco Catalyst 9000 line of switches includes modular and fixed units and supports all deployment models including access, aggregation, and core switching. The Cisco Catalyst 9000 series offers devices with the appropriate price/performance to connect workers and things in environments ranging from small businesses and branches to the largest enterprises. Catalyst 9000 products can be set up to implement any combination of onsite deployments, private and public clouds, and hybrid network models. Unified management platforms and cutting-edge cybersecurity features reduce cost of ownership by saving time and safeguarding critical IT assets. Cisco's 9000X family of switches provide converged switching and routing, delivering the first combination of 400G optical transceivers along with full multigigabit Ethernet and Power-over-Ethernet ports.

Cisco Catalyst 9000 Fixed and Modular Switches Experts

Catalyst 9000 Series Switches Are Designed for a Hybrid World

Catalyst 9200 Switches ExpertsWith twice the stacking bandwidth for about half the cost of the legacy Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR switches they are intended to replace, Catalyst 9200 Series switches are a natural network upgrade for small branches and midsize campuses. The Catalyst 9200 product line includes models that offer 24 or 48 ports with full PoE+; 80-160 Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth; streaming telemetry; and Layer 3 features that include OSPF Interior Gateway Protocol, EIGP distance routing protocol, IS-IS link-state protocol, and routed access. Cisco Catalyst 9200 switches are powered by the Cisco IOS XE operating system.

The Catalyst 9200 delivers 160-Gbps stacking performance, features field-replaceable redundant power supplies and fans, and accepts swappable network modules with 4x1G, 4x1/10G, 2x25G, or 2x40G uplink. The Catalyst 9200 Enhanced VN switch allows as many as 32 Virtual Networks and offers 160-Gbps backplane stacking throughput. The Catalyst 9200L delivers 80-Gbps backplane stacking bandwidth. Both the Catalyst 9200L multigigabit and the Catalyst 9200 multigigabit offer wireless bandwidth optimization with 8 or 12 mGig ports up to 10Gbps.

Catalyst 9300 Switches ExpertsCisco's Catalyst 9300 Series switches are fixed, stackable appliances for high-density access switching. Advanced capabilities provided with models in the Catalyst 9300 portfolio include up to 1Tbps backplane stacking capacity, stackable SFP fiber, up to 448 multigigabit ports and 288 ports of 90W UPOE+ with an 8-device configuration, line rate IPsec tunnel with AES-256 Encryption and performance up to 100G, redundant fans and power, plus data stack and StackPower cables common across the complete Catalyst 9300 family.

Powered by Cisco IOS XE, appliances in the Catalyst 9300 family offer automated provisioning, API-based configuration, granular visibility for near realtime monitoring, and seamless software updates. Advanced security features include Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) as well as AES-256 MACsec and IPSec encryption, plus Trust Anchor Technologies with Image signing. Cloud security is strengthened because Catalyst 9300 switches can host the Cisco Umbrella agent directly. This makes it possible for organizations to design their DNS filtering policies at user or group level to prevent BYOD or IoT users from accessing malicious websites.

The value-priced Cisco Catalyst 9300L switch features as much as 320G stacking throughput and offers 12 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10G ports and 36 10M/100M/1G ports. The 9300L uses fixed instead of modular uplink components for 4 1G, 4 10G, or 2 40G uplink ports. The Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch features 480G of stacking capacity and supports 48 100M/1G/2.5G/5Gbps Ethernet ports, 24 100M/1G/2.5G/5G/10Gbps Ethernet ports, or 48 1G SFP ports. Modular uplink speeds supported are 1G, 10G, 25G, or 40G. The top-of-the-line Cisco Catalyst 9300X appliance provides up to 1Tbps backplane stacking performance and supports 48 10G ports. The 9300X supports uplink modules with dual-rate 100G/40G, multirate 25G/10G/1G, or mGig. Cisco 90W Universal Power Over Ethernet+ (UPOE+) supports dense IoT environments such as smart buildings. Hardware is available to provide 100G IPsec.

Cisco Catalyst 9400 Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 9400 Series devices are modular switches based on Cisco IOS XE and targeted for midsize and large campus access deployments. Delivering double the performance and more than four times the chassis bandwidth as the legacy Catalyst 6500 line it is built to replace, the Catalyst 9400 family ushers switch capability into the current age of networking driven by cybersecurity, mobility, Internet of Things, and cloud.

Catalyst 9400 switches are offered with 4-slot, 7-slot, and 10-slot chassis. Two slots on each chassis are dedicated to high-availability supervisor cards, making 2, 5, or 8 slots open for line cards. Max bandwidth scalability per line-card slot is 480G. Switching performance can achieve 1.44 Tbps and forwarding rate on Supervisor Module can reach 9 Tbps for the 10-slot chassis. All Catalyst 9400 switches offer 90W UPOE+ on every access port, secure network segmentation with Software-Defined Access and N+N/N+1 power redundancy for high availability. Cisco's Catalyst 9400 4-slot switch supports 96 10/100/1000 ports, 5G/10G mGig ports, or 10G SFP+ ports. The Catalyst 9400 7-slot switch supports 240 ports, and the Catalyst 9400 10-slot supports 384 ports. All Catalyst 9400 switches can support 2 non-blocking 40G Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplinks and up to 8 non-blocking 10G Ethernet SFP+ uplinks.

Catalyst 9500 Switches ConsultantsThe Catalyst 9500 product line includes fixed core and edge services appliances intended for the enterprise campus. Catalyst 9500 models are based on Cisco IOS XE and the the family includes the first network technology to provide switching speeds higher than 25 Terabits per second.

Cisco's Catalyst 9500 appliances deliver as high as 6.4 Terabits per second switching capacity with forwarding speed up to 2 Billion Packet per Second. Catalyst 9500 appliances can provide as many as 32 nonblocking 100 GB QSFP28 ports, 32 nonblocking 40G QSFP+ ports, 48 nonblocking 25G SFP28 ports, or 48 nonblocking 10 Gigabit SFP+ ports. You can configure MEC multipathing across Cisco StackWise-Virtual members to achieve high resiliency.

Catalyst 9500X switches can provide as high as 25.6 Tbps switching performance with up to 2 Bpps forwarding capacity. Catalyst 9500X devices support up to 28 nonblocking 40/100 Gigabit QSFP28 optical ports or 8 nonblocking 40/100/200/400 Gigabit QSFP-DD ports. The 9500X line also includes chip-level support for line-rate 256-bit 802.1AE Media Access Control Security (MACsec) and WAN-MACsec1 encryption.

Catalyst 9600 Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 9600 Series switches are modular core and distribution switches for the enterprise campus. The 6-slot 9600 Series chassis loaded with a Catalyst 9600X Series Supervisor delivers switching capacity as high as 25.6 Tbps and can contain as many as 256 nonblocking 10/25/50 Gigabit ports, 96 nonblocking 40/100G Gigabit ports, or 8 nonblocking 200/400 GE QSFP-DD ports. The Catalyst 9600 also supports dual-rate 40G/100G and 10G/25G optics. Two chassis slots are reserved for redundant supervisors. You can combine a variety of line cards for core and aggregation deployment scenarios. The chassis uses a passive backplane, making it possible to change out fan tray, power supplies, and line cards without disruption.

Legacy Catalyst Switches Supported by Progent
Progent's Cisco certified network consultants have broad experience providing remote and on-premises consulting and troubleshooting services for older Catalyst switches which have reached End of Life. These outdated switches typically cost more to manage and maintain than current products, provide lower capacity and fewer features, and for some cases may subject businesses to regulatory compliance and liability issues. Progent's consultants can help your business to maintain and repair these older Cisco products and can in addition help you to plan and execute seamless migrations to current products from the Catalyst line or to solutions from Cisco's Nexus line of network switches which take advantage of Catalyst design experience.

Catalyst Express 500 and 520 Line
Cisco Catalyst Express 500 Family Switches Consulting FirmCisco's Catalyst Express 500 line of Layer 2 switches are intended for organizations with up to 250 employees and provide the dependability, security, scalability, and feature set small and mid-sized companies require at an affordable cost. PoE capability makes it easy to install network devices like VoIP phones and IP cameras.

Versions of the Catalyst Express 500 managed switches offer up to 24 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet ports as well as the option of backup power with automatic fail-over for additional dependability. Interoperation with Cisco wireless access points allows organizations to set up a local wireless network quickly and easily. The Cisco Catalyst Express 500 family offers strong security against viruses thanks to the Cisco Self-Defending Network technology and Cisco Clean Access solutions. Catalyst 2940 Switch
Cisco 2900 Series Switches HelpCisco Catalyst 2900 Series fixed-configuration, managed 10/100 switches provide fundamental small-group networking for small to medium-sized businesses. These wire-speed desktop appliances offer Cisco IOS Software features for basic mixed-media traffic services at the edge of the network. The Cisco Catalyst 2940 family of managed switches are small-footprint, entry-level switches with 8 Fast Ethernet connections and a single built-in Fast Ethernet or Gigabit uplink. The enclosures can be deployed away from the wiring cabinet in space-constrained locations like on or under a worker's desk or in a classroom.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switch
The Catalyst 2960-S Series are fixed switches intended for small businesses and branches. Current versions incorporate either 24 or 48 1Gb Ethernet ports, four 1-Gigabit or two 10-GB Ethernet uplink connections, and provide throughput as high as 176 Gbps. Cisco's FlexStack technology permits as many as four 2960-S chassis to be combined in a stack to perform as one switching unit that offers 40 Gbps of stacking throughput and that cuts administrative costs because of single-switch setup. IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS) technology guards against address interception and malicious attacks.

Cisco Catalyst 3560 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches HelpCisco's Catalyst 3560 Series is a selection of fixed-configuration switches that features IEEE 802.3af and Cisco Power over Ethernet (PoE) functionality in 10/100 Ethernet and 10/100/1000 configurations. The Catalyst 3560 Series switch is an ideal access-layer switch for midsize business network access or satellite-offices, offering both Gigabit Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) options for high efficiency while streamlining the deployment of vital applications including VoIP, Wi-Fi, video surveillance, and remote video kiosks. Customers can deploy comprehensive smart services such as QoS, rate limiting, access control lists (ACLs), multicast administration, and fast IP routing while maintaining the ease of traditional LAN switching.

The Catalyst 3560 switch has a powerful set of features that allow for network expandability and enhanced resilience through IP routing as well as a full complement of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) improvements designed to maximize throughput in an access Layer network. Enhancements to the standard STP Protocol, including Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus, and Port Fast, as well as enhancements such as Flex Links Layer 2 interfaces, contribute to network efficiency. PVST+ allows for Data Link Layer load balancing on redundant connections to take advantage of the additional bandwidth inherent in a redundant architecture.

Efficient technologies including Open Shortest Path First, EIGRP, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and static routing improve system scale; Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) increases resource utilization; and Virtual Route Forwarding Lite (VRFLite) secures network traffic.

Catalyst 3750 Family Switches
Catalyst 3750 Family Switches ConsultingFor mid-size organizations and enterprise branches, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series switch eases deployment of unified applications and adapts to changing business environments by offering setup flexibility, support for converged network traffic, and automatic configuration of intelligent system services. Also, Cisco's Catalyst 3750 switch is designed for high-volume Gigabit environments and incorporates a wide selection of switches that address the connectivity, aggregation, and backbone-connectivity requirements of small or midsized systems.

The Cisco Catalyst 3750 Series switch includes the IP Base or the IP Services image. The IP Base image capabilities include advanced QoS, rate-management, ACLs, and simple static and RIP routing support. The IP Services image offers a richer selection of enterprise network functions, such as sophisticated built-in IP unicast/multicast routing.

Cisco StackWise technology is an architecture optimized for 1000 Ethernet. Cisco StackWise is designed to react to additions, deletions, and relocations while maintaining predictable performance. StackWise technology unites as many as 9 individual switches into a single functional unit, using custom stack-interconnect cables and software. Each of the switches can be any mix of Cisco's Catalyst 3750 Series and the Catalyst 3750-E Series switches. The stack behaves as a single switching unit that is managed by a master switch, selected from among the stack of switches. The control switch intelligently builds and updates all the switching and user-selected routing databases. A working stack can accommodate new devices or remove existing members without operational interruption.

Catalyst 2960 Series Switches and Catalyst 3560-CX Switches
Cisco Catalyst 2900 Family Switches Integration and TroubleshootingCisco's Catalyst 2960-CX is a fixed-port managed switch that is low-profile, fanless, low power, and includes flexible mounting alternatives. The device incorporates eight 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports and two 1-GE uplink ports and has an option for Power over Ethernet. Cisco's Catalyst 3560-CX appliance is a fixed-configuration switch housed in a compact, quiet and low-power unit that can be placed virtually anywhere convenient. Versions are offered with 8 or 12 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or with 6 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports plus 2 multigigabit Ethernet ports. Two or four uplinks are available, and Power over Ethernet is also an option.

Catalyst 2900-L Switches ConsultantsCisco's Catalyst 2960-L family includes entry-level fixed-port managed switches targeted for branch offices, retail venues, and other environments where space is limited. Catalyst 2900-L low-profile appliances have 8 to 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and either two or four Small Form-Factor Pluggable uplink ports. PoE support reduces clutter and fanless operation for the 8- versions does away with noise. RJ-45 interfaces accommodate 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-T SFP-ports.

Catalyst 2960-X and 2960-XR Series switches enhance the 2690-S line by offering switching capacity as high as 216 Gbps and providing Cisco's FlexStack-Plus stacking technology via a hot-swappable plug-in that can combine 8 Catalyst switches in a FlexStack Plus stack with 80 Gbps of stacking throughput. Cisco Catalyst 2900 Series switches also support NetFlow-Lite for application visibility and control. Cisco's Catalyst 2960-XR Series switch features Layer 3 dynamic routing, offering the convenience of using a single switch for L2 and L3 routing.

Catalyst 3650 and 3850 Switches
Cisco Catalyst 3650 Switch and 3850 Switches Planning and Support ServicesCisco Catalyst 3650 and Catalyst 3850 series switches are fixed-configuration, stackable network access switches based on Cisco's IOS XE control software and incorporating full wireless network controller capability that lets you control wired and wireless networks on a one device powered by one OS. Cisco offers models with 24 or 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with PoE+, four 1-Gigabit or four 10-Gigabit uplinks, and support for as many as nine Catalyst switches in a stack. All models provide expandable QoS, stateful switchover for maximum availability, support in software for IPv4 and IPv6 routing, multicast, and enhanced security.

Because wireless traffic is present at the Catalyst 3000 family switch, administrators can spot and assign priorities to wireless data using Cisco's Flexible NetFlow (FNF) solution and advanced Quality of Service capabilities for an improved user experience and quicker problem isolation. Fast Ethernet switching supports the high-throughput called for by the new 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless specification using currently in-place cabling solutions. (To find out about Progent's support for Cisco's 802.11ac Aironet wireless technology, and Cisco's Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, refer to Configuration and Troubleshooting Support for Cisco Wireless Technology.)

The Cisco Catalyst 3650 delivers stacking performance as high as 160 Gbps and supports as many as 25 wireless access points and 1000 Wi-Fi clients on each stack. The Catalyst 3850 Series switch delivers stacking bandwidth of 480 Gbps and supports up to 50 wireless APs and 2000 Wi-Fi clients on each switch. Cisco Catalyst 3850 SFP Fiber Switches have 12 or 24 1G fiber connections at line rate on every port, offering long distance connectivity, advanced security, and a consistent wired and wireless user experience.

Catalyst 4500-E Series and Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Catalyst 4500-E and and Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series switches are intended for campus and distribution deployments where space for networking hardware is at a premium. Powered by Cisco's IOS XE operating system, both the Catalyst 4500-E and 4500-X product lines simplify network virtualization thanks to Cisco's EVN and VSS technologies. Network virtualization allows you to divide a hardware network into multiple virtual networks whose data and control planes are logically segregated. This makes possible the economy, protection, resilience, and manageability needed for Cloud environments or other situations where a common resource pool must be used by applications and services that must operate in complete isolation from each other. Easy Virtual Network speeds up the process of creating VNs and scales to 32 VNs for each switch. Easy Virtual Network incorporates the capabilities of Multi-VRF and provides additional technologies such as VNET Tags and a simple technique for duplicating replicating routes between virtual networks. Virtual Switching System technology makes it easy to configure Catalyst 4500-E and Catalyst 4500-X Series switches to produce zero-downtime virtual networks with advanced load balancing.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 4500-E Family Switches Consulting FirmThe Supervisor Engine for for the Catalyst 4500-E modular switch has an integrated wireless controller that supports Cisco's Unified Access solution for wired and wireless convergence. this is the first Cisco Catalyst supervisor to enable wired plus wireless services on one platform based on IOS XE. Technologies included are Cisco's Flexible NetFlow technology for application visibility encompassing both wired and Wi-Fi networks, TrustSec/SGT2 wired/wireless data security, predictable Quality of Service for wired and Wi-Fi networks, plus the extension of NSF/SSO to include Wi-Fi data traffic for world-class availability.

Offered in chassis with from three to 10 plug-in slots, Cisco Catalyst 4500-E switches can support as many as 384 1-Gigabit Ethernet access ports, up to 192 Gigabit Ethernet fiber fiber ports, 96 10-Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, and eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. Cisco's Supervisor Engine 8-E delivers as much as 928 Gbps of wired capacity per system and up to 20 Gbps of wireless termination capacity. 50 Wi-Fi access points and 2000 wireless clients can be handled on each switch, and 250 wireless access points and 4000 wireless users can be managed in a dual-switch installation without a separate wireless controller.

Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches
Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches Consulting and TroubleshootingCisco's Catalyst 4500-X switches are fixed 10GE aggregation switches that can deliver as much as 800 Gbps of core switching performance per device. The Catalyst 4500-X switch supports up to 32 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports on the unit's baseboard and eight additional 10GE ports on the optional expansion module for a total of 40 10GE ports. Eight 10GE uplink ports can be added with another module. In addition to providing zero-downtime performance and simple management, Cisco's VSS technology on Catalyst 4500-X switches offers increased system throughput of as much as 1.6 Tbps by enabling all available bandwidth between redundant Catalyst 4500-X Series switches. Other features include FNF technology for application visibility, Cisco TrustSec protection, and wire-rate IPv6 forwarding.

Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 switches are enterprise campus core switches that incorporate the proven DNA of the Catalyst 6500 family of switches, which were introduced more than a decade ago and which have been steadily enhanced ever since. Catalyst 6500 Series and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series switches provide identical features and operation, and the modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch accepts the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2T and its extensive family of line cards and modules. This backwards compatibility and program of ongoing enhancement preserves your technology investment and permits you to update your network with minimal downtime or IT team retraining.

Common attributes of Catalyst 6500 and Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches equipped with Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T include the Cisco Identity Services Engine for simple, single-point administration to put in place unvarying policy throughout a distributed network, Virtual Switching System technology for maximum uptime through multi-level failover, and the Cisco Campus Locator/ID Separation Protocol to facilitate roaming and mobility and to simplify network virtualization and transition to IPv6. Other virtualization features to partition distinct client groups and support the unique security and QoS policy needs of every group include Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN, full MPLS, EVN, VRF-aware technology for Network Address Translation NetFlow, GRE for v4/v6, and L2 extensions with VPLS. For unified wired/wireless networking, the Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2) for Catalyst 6500 and Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series modular switches can manage 1000 wireless access points and 15,000 wireless users.

Catalyst 6500-E Series Switches
Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Consulting FirmThe Catalyst 6500-E family of modular switches are intended for aggregation and enterprise core environments that require world-class uptime and high densities of 1 Gigabit Ethernet, 1 GE fiber, or 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet access ports. Available versions have three to 13 slots and work with a broad range of interfaces. Integrated service modules support wireless management, network analysis, and data protection. Just E-Series versions of Cisco's extensive line of Catalyst 6500 switches accept Cisco's Supervisor Engine 2T.

The value-priced Catalyst 6503-E switch has a 4RU form factor, includes 3 slots, and offers 180 Gbps of switching bandwidth on each slot. The Cisco Catalyst 6503-E switch supports up to 97 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports, up to 99 Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, up to 34 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and 8 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The high-end Cisco Catalyst 6513-E has a 19 rack unit, 13-slot form factor and offers up to 180 Gbps of capacity per slot, with a total system capacity as high as 4 Tbps. A VSS configuration can deliver up to 8 Tbps of switching capacity. The Catalyst 6513-E Series switch can support up to 529 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports, up to 534 1GE fiber ports, 180 10-Gigabit Ethernet ports, and up to 44 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Catalyst 6800 Series Switches
Catalyst 6800 Series Switches Consulting FirmCisco's Catalyst 6800 switches are campus backbone switches intended to provide optimal 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services. The Cisco Catalyst 6880-X switch is a fixed, small form factor switch for high-density Ethernet intended for small or midsize enterprise campus cores. The 6880-X delivers up to 2 Tbps switching capacity and features four slots for plug-in port cards. The top port concentration per chassis is 80 1 Gigabit Ethernet access ports or 10GE connections or as many as 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports. Configured with VSS, a two-chassis system can provide 4 Tbps performance and support up to 158 10/100/1000 Ethernet access ports or 10GE access ports or up to 20 40-Gigabit Ethernet connections.

The modular Cisco Catalyst 6807-XL switch has a 10-rack-unit chassis with 7 expansion slots and supports existing Supervisor Engine 2T cards and service modules. (Two of the slots are reserved for the Supervisor Engine and the other five are for expansion modules.) The Catalyst 6807-XL switch can deliver as much as 880 Gbps of switching performance on each slot and 11.4 Tbps of full-duplex switching throughput while handling up to 240 1 Gigabit Ethernet connections or 1GE fiber ports, 80 10GE connections or up to 20 40GE access ports. A two-chassis 6807-XL system with VSS can handle 22.8 Tbps of switching performance, 480 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports or Gigabit Ethernet fiber ports, up to 160 10GE access ports or 40 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports.

How Progent Can Assist You with Catalyst Switches
Progent can provide the online or on-premises services of CCIE-certified network consultants who have broad experience providing Catalyst switch solutions for small and medium sized organizations, branch offices, enterprises, data centers, Cloud networks, and service providers. Progent's areas of expertise include Catalyst and Nexus lines of managed switches and with Cisco's IOS and NX-OS control software. Support services available from Progent for Catalyst Series switches include proof-of-concept testing, network analysis, network architecture design, upgrades and project management, virtualization, wired/wireless convergence, network management, capacity planning, problem mitigation, disaster recovery planning, and information security and compliance assessment and validation.

Progent's Cisco-certified consultants have broad knowledge of open standards as well as with proprietary Cisco technologies related to switching and routing such as Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS, Protocol Independent Multicast, VPNs, ISIS, virtual LANs, Cisco FabricPath, VPC, OTV, VRRP, OSPF, VSS, and LISP. Progent's infrastructure experts also have experience with key networking technologies such as TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, EIGRP, Routing Information Protocol (RIP), and Internet Group Management Protocol. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP certified network security consultants can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and implement Catalyst switches so that they provide maximum support for your security posture.

If you need ultra high Ethernet density or extremely low latency switches for a world-class data center, Progent can assist you to analyze, plan, and implement a migration to Cisco's Nexus family of switches. For information about Progent's support services for Nexus switches, see Nexus Switch consulting and support services. Progent can also assist you to connect Catalyst core switches with Meraki aggregation switches. (See Cisco Meraki switch integration consultants.)

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